Fraternities are not guilt-free of partaking in the culture of excessive drinking and sexual misconduct, but we cannot expect to lay sanctions on them alone and consider the issue resolved. It is all too easy to lay the blame on the highly visible Greek societies that seem to dominate the social and party scene, but they are only part of the problem, not the problem itself.

Race relations, economic disparities, the lingering threat of crime, having to deal with people of different backgrounds: it not easy being in West Philly.

ANNEKA DECARO is a College freshman from Austin, TX. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.

The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with Scientific Director of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology Mark Allen to get an inside look at the Center's work.

The suspect “jumped out of a car in the area of 4100 block of Pine and demanded anything she had to give him,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

Harvard received a record-high number of applicants for its Class of 2019, a total of 41 more than Penn.

A couple of Penn's peer institutions are adding to their sexual assault education programs. Undergrad and graduate students at Columbia will be required to complete a sexual respect education program by March 13 or they will face holds on their diplomas and/or registration.

Millennial votes are key to Doug Oliver's campaign. 

A basic guide to Payments in Lieu of Taxes.

The Quakers exploded offensively on their way to a 78-57 win over Columbia, a good confidence booster after Friday night’s loss to Cornell.

Columbia obliterated Penn basketball, 83-56, at Levien Gymnasium, using 10 first-half three-pointers and a dominant offensive performance to run Penn out of the gym.

The UA and Penn’s Committee on Open Expression seeks to post student feedback on Penn Course Review.

The American Bible Society is moving its national headquarters from New York to Philadelphia.

Depression is becoming more common for college freshmen according to a recent national survey. The Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute has conducted the survey for the last 50 years and this year's version, "The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2014," had 9.5 percent of freshmen say that they had "felt depressed" within the last year.

Penn once again ranks near the top of another list made by College Factual with the University's English department getting the accolades this time. College Factual ranks Penn as the second best college for a major in English, only eclipsed by George Washington.

Columbia senior Emma Sulkowicz gained national attention for carrying her mattress around campus in protest of Columbia not expelling her alleged rapist Paul Nungesser.

Things are about to get decidedly less kinky in Cambridge for professors on the prowl... Harvard has officially banned romantic relationships between professors and undergraduates after previously just banning professors from having sexual relationships with student they taught.